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don welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Hi Jesus, my pleasure. And
I'm curious who chose the books to be

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included in the Bible and why the
Book of Enoch wasn't included, because from

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what I understand, the Book of
Enoch was found with the Dead two scrolls

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and it mentioned a lot about Jesus
and God. And I'm curious to what

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you have to say about this.
Well, there's a lot of books out

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there that make reference to Me,
or to the Father, or to Christianity

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that wouldn't necessarily be considered the canonized
version of scripture. So let's look over

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what the Book of Enoch is.
First. A lot of people don't know

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this, but the Book of Enoch
doesn't refer to one book. There's several

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what they call pseudopograful book works that
claim authorship is Enoch. Enoch is the

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son of Jared, obviously the grandfather
of Noah, and so there's a lot

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of different works out there that say, Okay, this was written by Enoch.

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But most people when they're referring to
the Book of Enoch tend to be

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referring to first Enoch. Now,
this work in its entirety exists only originally

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and the Ethiopia language, So it's
interesting that there's already things that set it

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apart from the rest of Scripture.
One verse that I want you to think

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about is in Jude. Jude three
says that the faith that was once and

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for all delivered to the saints.
A lot of people look for hidden works,

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yet by God's own word it states
that it's all been delivered. It

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is canonized before man ever recognizes it. When you talk about ordaining somebody,

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and one of the most beautiful ways
I've heard someone speak about being ordained,

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they said, no, no,
no, I'm not being ordained by man.

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I was ordained by God recognized by
man. So scripture is ordained by

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God, it is canonized by God. That canonization is recognized by man based

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on certain things. Things in scripture
that make it scripture have to do with

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is the authorship true? Is the
content in harmony with the rest of scripture

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and not some strange thing that somehow
now is promoting something else other than that

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which is scripture. That wouldn't make
sense if it's historical, if it dates

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back to the origins properly, both
in context and references, that there's nothing

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that stands out in a way that
would show, hey, this doesn't make

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sense. That doesn't mean that the
book itself doesn't have value. It's just

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not to be put on the same
level as the Word of God. So

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canonization sometimes is a process. It's
a process of people recognizing it. But

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the majority of the works were recognized
very very early on. It's when people

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start adding these and thinking, oh, there's some secret thing that wasn't told

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or we didn't learn about first is
when there's a problem. So some people

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go to one of the tools that
is used to judge the validity of a

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book of scripture and say, well, you know, if it's talked about

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in scripture itself in other books by
different authors, than that gives it validity.

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And that is one of the tools
that is used for understanding the validity

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when it comes to the Book of
Enoch. Though, you've got a situation

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because Jude references Enoch and so enoch
Is is referenced in scripture. However,

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what yet it is still considered a
non canonical book. It's still considered to

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be out side of the canon of
Scripture, and people get caught up in

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that saying, well, if it's
referenced in scripture, then how come it's

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not scripture. But that's not the
case all the time. As you might

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remember that Paul references Epimenodes in Titus
one twelve, and that Epimenodies is not

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any of Epimenoities. Writings dealing with
philosophy and the like were not considered scripture.

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So you take all of these different
references, and you take all of

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the historical factors of the writings,
and they just don't add up to scripture.

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They weren't used by the early Church
in that way. They weren't seen

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as official documents early on, and
so adding them now would be to damage

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the integrity of scripture. Doesn't mean
that you can't read it, doesn't mean

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that you can't enjoy it or read
it for what it is. Just don't

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put it on the level of a
work of God or the Word of God,

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because it's not seen that way.
And this whole attitude about adding things

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or things missing in scripture and that
man took them out is really silly.

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If you go back to the early
Church fathers and you go back to their

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their writings and their teachings early on, you couldn't restruct You can reconstruct almost

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the entirety of the New Testament just
by their teachings because it was used so

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much. Now that shows that it's
it's used and it's applied in the very

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early Church, which shows its validity
and its importance. It was believed to

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be the word of God prior to
any counsels or any of these things,

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the counsel of Hippo, any of
these it's about it being seen and understood.

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Is the word of God originally.
And then all of the bibliographical tests

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to see that it's you know,
it's accurate, and it's historically sensible,

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and all of these things will go
into showing the validity of scripture, and

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that it's canonized or cannon is like
a measuring read. It means that it

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is the rule of the law,
so things can't be added to it or

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subtracted to it. And this kind
of more popular now, this attitude of

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you know, there's mysteries, we
have to know something new and it The

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silly thing is is people aren't even
reading and adapting the things that are already

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in front of them. They want
something new. Because people are looking for

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a loophole or a way out.
They're looking for something that will either change

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their accountability or somehow make scripture not
as demanding on them. And so they're

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looking for these ways out. You
know, people look for reincardnation. Well,

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reincarnation should be in there. It
was removed, must have been removed

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by the early Church, which is
silly. Reincarnation never played a part in

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scripture. To be absent from the
body is to be present with the Lord.

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It is appointed for man to die
once and then the judgment. It's

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never been a part of scripture.
But people desire that. So they look

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for these hidden works or these works
that maybe, well maybe this will this

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will help, or this was somehow
hidden or you know. And I know

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that it's sexy for people to think, oh wow, gosh, it's really

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there's there's got to be all these
hidden things, and that's that's the way

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it work and works. And I'm
going to come across this hidden work now

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I'm going to have the knowledge that
other people don't. And this gnosticism,

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this uh, this kind of belief
that you're going to be in a secret

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knowledge makes people, you know,
want to raise these books a higher than

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they should be raised. And there's
nothing in history that would give them that

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authenticity or veracity. And just because
they're found in a cave, or they're

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found next to something else, or
any of these things, there's more to

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it than just that. And I
know it's interesting. And read them and

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have the sense of an old cow. Eat the hay and leave the sticks,

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and really take from it that which
is good, and leave what's garbage.

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But don't look at it or read
it. Certainly, do not read

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it as the word of God.
Annie, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Yes, Jesus Hi. I have
a question regarding autistic children. I

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have a grandchild who's autistic, and
my son and daughter in law asked me,

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why would God do this to a
child because it's very difficult twenty four

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to seven, a showy and financially
very burdensome to the family, and especially

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difficult for healthy siblings. What would
I say to them, Well, why

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would they assume that God did it
to that child? Well, this is

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what I said, God would never
do anything like that. But then I

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didn't know how to explain further.
Any Bible passages you would recommend to read?

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Oh, I don't think there's going
to be a Bible passage. It's

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going to make somebody think differently about
the pain that goes on every single day.

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You could ask them, why would
they ask that question only when it

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pertained to them? How come they
weren't asking this before they had that child,

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when other people had autistic children,
they had never been exposed to this

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disease. I guess you would call
it. Didn't know anyone who had a

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child with that syndrome. So now
so now their focus is basically of why

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did this happen to us? I
think possibly yes. And they don't know

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what to do about it. They're
taking them to therapy and classes and things,

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and there has been leaps and bounds
of understanding. And I'm glad that

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you called because a lot of people
don't understand autism, nor do they feel

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comfortable talking about it. And a
lot of parents are new to the experience

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and understanding, and they may not
talk about it. And it's important for

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people to understand. But to ask
the question about God, I don't know

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is a very fair one. When
we're going to go to a quick break

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here, but I want to talk
to you. I have some some thoughts

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on this question of why did God
allow this to happen? In just a

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second, Annie, you there,
Yes, thanks for thanks for holding um.

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Your grandson has autism. Families coming
to you asking you why God would

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allow this to happen, and that
puts you in a position of trying to

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defend your faith in a way that
might be awkward because when you're dealing with

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with a heart issue, you're dealing
with people who are in pain. They

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don't want an academic answer true,
So it's they're they're asking, ah,

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you know, just two plus two
equals four question, but really it's a

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it's a it's a heart issue.
Uh, you know, they they're they're

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in pain right now and there's nothing
that you're going to tell them that's going

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to make them go Okay. That
makes sense to me. But I want

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you to know this is for you
that I want you to know that at

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what point, at what sickness do
you want to remove all of them?

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And do you want to remove death
and then there's no heaven or do you

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want to just make a quick transition
like a big escalator to heaven? Or

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is should there be no pain?
Well, that would imply that all pain

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is bad and that's not true,
right. Pain can be be good and

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pain can be bad, just as
pleasure can be good and pleasure can be

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bad. I think they just wanted
some answers and help in dealing with it.

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Well, what the best part about
dealing with it is understanding that this

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child is no more valuable or less
valuable because they have special needs. Yes,

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exactly. And you know what,
Annie, the most beautiful thing I

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ever heard was when someone with a
special needs child said, God trusted me

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enough to put this child in my
life. Wow. And it's it's when

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somebody gives you something of value that
needs precious concern. If they left their

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their prize winning dog with you,
people would go, oh, my goodness,

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they really trust me. God is
saying I'm giving you a child that

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needs special attention and special love,
and that, to me is is a

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statement of how God feels about the
family in the positive. Not that it's

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on lumping you with this kid.
No, that I trust you with this

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beautiful child. There is something dealing
with the concept of pain that I think

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rattles people or make them think differently
and want to I want to make this

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clear. It's something that comes up
quite a bit that pain isn't bad all

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the time. There are many things
that you do in life where pain shows

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that you're producing something. I mean, childbirth is one of them. The

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pain of working out, the pain
of studying for a test. There's a

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lot of pain. Just growth in
general causes pain. And I think when

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I think, when you go through
pain in life, you concern yourself on

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the outside with Gosh, how come
this is happening to me? Really,

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it's it's more of a selfish concern
than anything else. It's more like,

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how come this happen to me and
not someone else? Because when it's happening

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in someone else, you're not necessarily
answering the question. You get some people,

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well how come kids are starving over
here? And they ask that question,

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But really that's more about diverting an
answer. They don't they don't want

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to hear an answer, and they
don't want it to be about them,

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because then you're gonna ask them,
well, how come they don't believe?

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Or how come they are experiencing God
in one way or the other. But

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pain is one of those things that
seems to stop people in their tracks when

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it comes to God. You may
you may think, Wow, you know

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what, if if there's a God
that's all loving and all powerful, there

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can't be this pain, there can't
be this ugliness, there can't be problems.

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And that's just not true. The
amount of things that you would have

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to that you even enjoy, that
you would have to remove from the equation

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to eradicate pain would not be a
balanced exchange the things that you would lose

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to try and rid yourself of pain. Have you ever seen somebody on morphine,

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completely doped up on morphine and you
ask them how you feeling fine?

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Are you in pain? No?
But do you think they're aware of pleasure?

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Really? Either? Sometimes when you
dull the pain, it can cause

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more problems than you think. The
misconception about lepers is that they fall apart,

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like lepers are decaying, and that's
not necessarily true, although that does

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play a part in the illness.
But a lot of the problems that lepers

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have is that they're The way they
feel and sense things is different. Their

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nerves start to die, so they
don't know what's hot, they don't know

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what's heavy, they don't know they
don't experience things the same way. So

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leprosy starts to break down the nervous
system and the nerves and feeling, and

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so you'll you'll pick up something hot, you'll pick up something too heavy that

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will start to destroy the workings of
your body. That pain is a necessity,

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it's an important necessity to life,
to help you have balance, true

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balance, and understand things, understand
what's bad for you, what's good for

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you, and also knowing that there's
times when that pain is beneficial, and

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to learn that not all pleasure is
good. This attitude, this heatednistic kind

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of attitude that everything has to feel
good to be good, is garbage.

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And you're being fed that day in
and day out. And it comes to

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the point where when in your own
home or your own family, or your

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own relationships, you can't even connect
anymore because the minute there's a fight,

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there's an argument, there's anything slightly
unpleasant, you want out. You don't

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want to experience that anymore. And
pain has that purpose. Like the leper.

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If you if you don't have those
feelings, if you don't have those

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tiny senses, those nerve endings,
you'll grab the hot pan and burn right

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through your flesh. Pain is good, It has a purpose. It's not

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always good, but it has a
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The end result is good, either
that pain steers you into a path of

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righteousness or understanding it steers you away
from greater danger. It's this attitude,

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though, getting to this place where
where you don't want any of it in

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your life, where you almost want
to be numb to the realities of pain,

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put you in a position to not
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of pleasure. The very things that
you love in life, that you cherish,

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nobility, courage, heroics, love, All of these things mean nothing

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without adversity, hate, indifference.
They have to exist for you to find

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and to appreciate. That's the purpose
of this life. In a nutshell,

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the meaning of life is to utilize
your gifts and abilities along lines of excellence

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to the edification of others and to
the edification of yourself, to the glory

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of God. And that doesn't mean
no pain. And if that becomes your

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goal, if it becomes your goal
solely to rid yourself of pain, that's

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why people bloat up and eat so
much till they're going to pop. That

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is why people drown themselves in alcohol
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desire to seek only pleasure, this
epicurean type attitude that you just are going

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to get to this place where all
all is pleasurable. It is not true.

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Even Heaven, which is arguably the
place where all is pleasurable, is

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pleasurable for those that seek and want
to know God. Which is why there's

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a hell, because there are people
that don't want to seek and don't want

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to know God. And I won't
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So God's love comes this other place
where God is not And why is

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it torture Because it's absent of the
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So that absence is what's felt.
God is in your life through all

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the things you're experiencing. And does
that mean that God is causing pain in

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your life? No? God allows
these things. God allows them so that

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you can learn, so that you
have a life full of richness that is

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not some kind of Pollyanna synthetic pink
existence. Everything you experience in life,

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go through your memories today, from
weddings to uh, you know, births,

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to birthdays to any major experience,
and the thing that you will tell

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people about that experience is most likely
what went wrong, not what went right.

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You're not going to believe this.
On my wedding day, my sister

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backed up into my mother in law's
car. They hadn't even met. That's

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what you'll tell people, because that's
what has meaning. The things that you

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love about your your partner in life, look into their eyes. The things

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that you find most endearing are the
things they hate about themselves. The imperfections

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that they don't like are the things
that to you are the uniqueness and their

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value because they're different. Old diamonds, These things aren't valuable because they're like

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everything else. They're valuable because they're
they're different. Goodness to grant it.

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Grant it may be looking over at
gold going that is ugly. Look how

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different it looks Cole sitting there staring
at diamonds. Yeah, apparently can't handle

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the heat and the pressure over here. M hm, they just go transparent.

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But that's the beauty. Does that
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constant pain? No? But there
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And as we've talked about many times
on the air, a lovely quote

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from C. S. Lewis that
God whispers to you in your pleasure.

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God speaks to you and your conscience, and God screams to you and your

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pain. The pain is a way
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And so when you're cursing God about
the pain in your life and going why

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me, and why now? And
why this and why that? Think about

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this that as those atheists or those
nonbelievers look around and say pain and evil

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and trials point to the fact there
is no God. On the contrary,

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it points to the very existence of
a God, a God that shows you

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the difference between pain and pleasure,
that makes you even seek out pleasure,

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knowing that there's something better than just
what's here. Pain points to a loving

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God, not away from him.
Sandra Sondra, Welcome to the Jesus Christ

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Show. Hi, Jesus. I'd
like to ask a question that's come up

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many many times throughout my life,
okay, and that is the mysterious years

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of your youth. There's talk that
you disappeared in that there's no documentation of

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where you were, and I was
always curious about where you were. And

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please forgive me if I'm being out
a line and asking no, I was

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wondering where you went for what purpose, and is it's something we need to

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know about it. It's a wonderful
question. There's a lot of so called

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mystery around this, and it's quite
silly when you look at it with in

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its context and you just go,
okay, well, what makes sense here?

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And what is the most reasonable explanation? Have you ever received or sent?

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During the holidays? Around Christmas time, people tend to write those kind

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of news about their family. Have
you seen those? And say such and

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such as graduating or so and so
just got married. Do they explain everything

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that took place over the year or
only the mile markers, the big things

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like weddings. They don't say so
and so got up this morning and he

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had juice with some toast, and
then he went to the restroom and then

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kind of laid around for a while, watched a little bit of TV.

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That would be huge and voluminous as
a as a note to send to somebody,

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right, it would be huge.
So they only take the parts that

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are pertained to the story in which
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mostly about what's going on the big
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Well, the Bible is not different
from that. The Bible is similar

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in the sense that the Bible is
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That's why it doesn't say, you
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they should be using a biscuit joiner
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not a it's not about carpentry,
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It's about your spirituality and it's about
your relationship with God. So only

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those things that pertain to that are
important in scripture. So you have my

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birth, which is important. You
have up until my age of twelve.

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At that age, you're looking at
the first time in public that I made

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the proclamation to my parents. If
you remember, my mother and my foster

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father come looking for me and they
said where were you? And I was

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reading and I said, don't you
know, I'm to be about my father's

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business. It was the first time
that I had verbalized that in the context

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of dealing with my parents. That's
a big deal. So that's in scripture.

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Then you don't hear anything until I'm
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So you're looking at those things and
people say, well, what about those

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supposed last years in there what happened
during the years. However, if you

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read scripture closely, you'll see that
it makes a statement for what takes place.

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It says, when I start my
ministry, what did they say?

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They didn't say, who is this
guy? They said, isn't that Jesus,

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the son of Joseph the carpenter.
If I had been gone for eighteen

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years, they wouldn't have recognized me
in any way, shape or form.

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They recognized me because I was still
in the community, still working, still

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working with my foster father Joseph,
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I didn't go to Tibet to learn
how to levitate. I didn't go

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anywhere to learn reincarnation or any of
these things that people trying to espouse and

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say that it's somehow extracted from scripture. None of that makes sense in context.

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What does make sense in context is
that I was there the whole time.

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I just was doing normal things.
It wasn't about my ministry. It

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wasn't until that first mirror at the
wedding at Cana where I turned the water

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into wine that they started recording that
or writing that because that was pertinent to

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the story. Whereas waking up,
building a table, building a chair was

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not. But they recognized who I
was. They knew who I was,

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So it wasn't a matter of me
being gone and then coming back. It

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was that they saw me there.
They that was actually a barrier between me

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being their Christ. They had a
harder time accepting that because they knew me,

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And so that that plays into that. Also understanding that even it said

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in scripture that all the things that
I did could add volumes, now it

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was that in ministry. So all
the things I did in three years was

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going to add volumes. No,
everything without throughout the entirety of my life.

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Thank you for joining me this Sunday. I hope you joined me every

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Sunday more importantly than all the craziness
us. Remember these words, I am

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with you always KF I am six
forty on demand